The important thing missing from this page is why Jonathan Bachrach and the other people whose names are smaller lost interest in their creation in 2005.
Programming language archeology, anyone? (The linked page seems to be about a decade old and has broken links to the mailing list and news.)
Seriously, though, does any maintained language occupy this space? Is there “a simpler, more dynamic, lisp-syntaxed Dylan … and an object-oriented Scheme” that “offer[s] the best of both scripting and delivery languages”, with dynamic compilation and type inference (and no VM)?
Open Dylan is actively maintained and developed. We are working with someone (from the old Dylan and SK8 teams at Apple) on an experimental s-expression reader for Open Dylan. We aren’t sure yet where that will go or on what timeline.
As for an OO-scheme, there was rscheme which was interesting and inspired some by Dylan, IIRC.
Creating such a system from scratch is a huge amount of work though, which is why I had chosen to help revive Dylan and push it further.
I have been in touch with JRB recently and have been trying to get the CVS history for Goo to put on GitHub to preserve the history.
I have also been working to recover the old wiki contents.
I am just doing this for archival purposes, not to try to revive the language. Open Dylan is enough work for me as it is. :)
The important thing missing from this page is why Jonathan Bachrach and the other people whose names are smaller lost interest in their creation in 2005.
Don’t know about the other 4, but JRB is at Berkeley now and working on Chisel, which is probably taking up most of his time.
Programming language archeology, anyone? (The linked page seems to be about a decade old and has broken links to the mailing list and news.)
Seriously, though, does any maintained language occupy this space? Is there “a simpler, more dynamic, lisp-syntaxed Dylan … and an object-oriented Scheme” that “offer[s] the best of both scripting and delivery languages”, with dynamic compilation and type inference (and no VM)?
Open Dylan is actively maintained and developed. We are working with someone (from the old Dylan and SK8 teams at Apple) on an experimental s-expression reader for Open Dylan. We aren’t sure yet where that will go or on what timeline.
As for an OO-scheme, there was rscheme which was interesting and inspired some by Dylan, IIRC.
Creating such a system from scratch is a huge amount of work though, which is why I had chosen to help revive Dylan and push it further.